How many renaissances have there been? It is not a straightforward question. “Renaissance” means rebirth, and the word itself has undergone a sequence of births. In “The World at First Light,” Bernd ...

From Brunelleschi’s ingenious design of the dome crowning the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, to the vast ceiling of the Sistine Chapel decorated with Michelangelo’s staggering frescoes, ...

These Renaissance artists are forever immortalized. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most notable artists that worked within the European Renaissance Period, roughly ...

With minimal ingenuity, any historical period can be made to dissolve into the ones around it. Take the rock revolution—that great shift which, emerging in the mid-nineteen-fifties and established by ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The Renaissance period in Europe lasted from the 14th Century to the 16th Century as a rebirth of culture and structure after the Dark Ages. It became one of the most important ...

Historian Alexander Bevilacqua joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the cultural rebirth which came to be known as The Renaissance. When did The Renaissance begin? What was it ...

Drawn from AGSA’s important collection, alongside rarely seen private loans, the exhibition features over 140 unrivalled Renaissance works in a wide range of mediums from painting, sculpture, ...